Our Connoisseur teas are our finest and rarest teas. The range includes our highest grade green teas, rare oolong and black teas, and puerhs from as early as the 1950s.
Taiwan Phoenix Oolong is smooth and silky with orange blossom, berries and creamy hazelnut notes. Hand-sourced from Ming Jian, Nantou Province, Taiwan.
Exceptionally fresh black tea from Nantou in Taiwan. Red Jade Black Tea delivers the concentrated sweetness and depth of baked fruit with uplifting eucalyptus aroma.
An exquisite return to our range, fresh from our trip to Anhui in May 2011. This tea is velvety textured with palate cleansing clarity and a long, lingering finish with notes of dark chocolate and sweet orchid.
A truly exceptional black tea from Li Shan with a stunning flavour full of caramel and ripe floral notes. This is JING Tea founder, Edward Eisler's favourite tea of recent years.
Intensely floral and vibrant - the ultimate lightly oxidised Chinese oolong tea. An extremely special Tie Guan Yin oolong and the finest example we have tasted in years.
An extremely rare and beautifully aged loose raw puerh from the 1970s. The infusion is a magnificent ruby red-brown and has an incredibly smooth, silky and refined mouthfeel.
Pre Rain Jun Shan Silver Needle is one of China's most famous teas and composed of perfectly formed, tender buds. A highly sought after tea, only produced on Jun Shan Island on Dong Ting Lake, Hunan Province for a couple of weeks a year.
Our highest grade Water Sprite oolong for this year. Graceful, rich and perfectly proportioned, with intricate notes of fragrant wood, gentle mineral oil, rose petal and peach leaf.
Intense, pure, deep and mineral, with great sappy persistence and depth. Gently peachy fruit behind, with a perfumed, honeysuckle finish. Complex and masterful.
Small and tender bud and leaf sets masterfully hand-fired fired to give the classic Dragon Well flavour. From the renowned Lion's Peak in Hangzhou's West Lake, China.
Pre Rain Organic Anji Bai Cha is picked right at the start of spring, between 5th and 10th of April 2011. Vivacious and exuberant flavours combine spring floral scents, sweet sappiness, and a lush texture.
Rich, excitingly pungent, full of the rounded almost peaty smoke notes given by cunningly banked fires of local pine. Complex and teasing with a hazel-sweet freshness behind the supple smoke.
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